Anthony Berkeley Livres

A dark and cynically comical psychological suspense novel, with an afterword by Keating Award-winning writer Barry Forshaw.

Swept away by an admirer's charm, Lina McLaidlaw finds herself settled in a life she could never have imagined. Her husband Johnnie is feckless and irresponsible, and even though she accepts he's a murderer, Johnnie still adores her - doesn't he?

Graham and Joan Bendix have apparently succeeded in making that eighth wonder of the modern world, a happy marriage. And into the middle of it there drops, like a clap of thunder, a box of chocolates.

Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the founder of the Detection Club, with a twist that even Agatha Christie couldn't solve!

A unique anthology for crime aficionados seven of the world s most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation. A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier s mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand Seven of the world s greatest crime writers turn their hand to some of the world s most spine-tingling mysteries all of them astonishingly TRUE. This remarkable collection from the archives of the Detection Club follows The Floating Admiral, Ask a Policeman and Six Against the Yard back into print after more than 75 years, and shows some of the most accomplished authors of their generation retelling real-life murder mysteries with all the relish of the tastiest crime fiction."

A classic British crime novel from the Golden Age - perhaps the first ever psychological crime novel - by the founder of the Detection Club, marking 50 years since the death of the author.

A classic Golden Age crime novel, and one of the first to feature a serial killer. Investigating the disappearance of a vicar's daughter in London, the popular novelist and amateur detective Roger Sheringham is shocked to discover that the girl is already dead, found hanging from a screw by her own silk stocking. Reports of similar deaths across the capital strengthen his conviction that this is no suicide cult but the work of a homicidal maniac out for vengeance - a desperate situation requiring desperate measures.Having established Roger Sheringham as a brilliant but headstrong young sleuth who frequently made mistakes, trusted the wrong people and imbibed considerable liquid refreshment, Anthony Berkeley took his controversial character into much darker territory with The Silk Stocking Murders, a sensational novel about gruesome serial killings by an apparent psychopath bent on targeting vulnerable young women.

Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years ago.

This collection features 42 crime stories by authors such as Margery Allingham, G.K. Chesterton, Edgar Wallace and L.P. Hartley.

Když Daily Courier vyšle svého novináře Rogera Sheringhama pracovně do Hampshiru, je to práce přesně podle jeho gusta. Pod útesy v Ludmouth Bay bylo nalezeno tělo ženy a místí policie případ uzavřela jako nešťastnou náhodu. Přítomnost inspektora Moresbyho ze Scotland Yardu však svědčí spíše o opaku. Sheringham sám nedokáže odolat a vydává se na dráhu detektiva amatéra. Události ho vedou do jedné slepé uličky za druhou...

Die vergifteten Pralinen ist ein Werk des Meisterautors Anthony Berkeley, das eine provokante Frage aufwirft: Ist es möglich, dass in einem Kriminalroman nur eine einzige Wahrheit existiert? Berkeley beantwortet diese Frage mit dem Fall der vergifteten Pralinen. Beginnend mit der traditionellen Struktur der Frage "Wer ist der Täter?", beleuchtet das Buch die Möglichkeit von mehrfachen Wahrheiten, die Vorliebe des Autors für bestimmte Detektive und die Bedeutung psychologischer Faktoren. Es öffnet zudem den Weg für die Evolution des Genres, indem es sich von mechanischen Tricks löst. Ein Vorfall ereignet sich, als die junge und wohlhabende Mrs. Bendix nach dem Verzehr von Schokolade stirbt. Die polizeilichen Ermittlungen ergeben, dass ihr Tod kein einfacher Unfall war und sie nicht einmal das ursprüngliche Mordziel war. Um den Fall zu lösen, der ohne Hinweise die Polizei zur Aufgabe zwang, versammeln sich prominente Kriminologen aus London. Wer ist der Täter?

Případ záhadné vraždy herečky Jeane Norwoodové. Kdy byla zabita, a který ze dvou mužů, kteří zabíjeli, byl vrah a který „zabil“ již jen mrtvé tělo?